In the Long Run

Anyone who has followed the United States presidential primaries in the last few months knows there have certainly been enough impassioned promises, plotting, strident claims, deliberate misrepresentations, back-biting, bold accusations, and calculated chicanery to fill several seasons of a prime-time television drama. I contrast those events with the dignified, peaceful, and orderly transition of a new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After the death of President Gordon B. Hinckley, the members of the Church were well aware that his position would be soon filled with a new president. Yet no members lobbied for candidates, no ambitious church leaders leaked half-truths about another to sow seeds of anger and discontent, and no one spent millions of dollars trying to lock down votes. We already knew the process whereby the new church president and prophet would be chosen, a process that we readily understand, support, and accept as being inspired by God.

I felt the tingle of testimony during the Saturday morning session of General Conference last weekend when I, and millions of others, unitedly stood, and unwaveringly sustained President Thomas S. Monson as our new prophet, and president of the Church. I did not need a poll or a political pundit to tell me I was making the right choice. I had a far more sublime witness, and experienced a singular moment of understanding how men and women on earth can righteously enact the will of God in heaven.

Posted by Cyppy at 7:21 PM